Asian Studies, Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language Option, M.A.

Required Core Courses (18 units):

• AAAS 492 - Senior Research Seminar (3 units)
• A/ST 600 - Asian Studies and Languages: Research and Methodologies (3 units)
• A/ST 620 - Comparative Traditional Cultures of Asia (3 units)
• A/ST 630 - Asia and Globalization (3 units)
• A/ST 697 - Research Capstone and Practicum (3 units)
• LING 539 - Language Acquisition (3 units)

Electives from CHIN (9 units):

• CHIN 521 - Current Affairs in China (3 units)
• CHIN 551 - Chinese Culture and Tradition (3 units)
• CHIN 561 - Structure of Modern Chinese Language (3 units)
• CHIN 562 - Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and English (3 units)
• CHIN 581 - Principles and Practice of Teaching Chinese (3 units)
• CHIN 585 - Masterpieces from China (3 units)
• CHIN 586 - Chinese Martial Arts Literature in Translation (3 units)
• CHIN 590 - Selected Topics in Chinese Studies (3 units)
• CHIN 591 - Chinese Contemporary Films (3 units)
• CHIN 599 - Directed Studies in Chinese (1-3 units)

Electives from Other Disciplines (3 units)

Courses in other disciplines, such as credential and/or education-related courses from the College of Education (CED), can be used to substitute certain electives in consultation with the Graduate Advisor.

• LING 501 - Corpus Linguistics (3 units)
• LING 522 - Discourse Analysis (3 credits)
• LING 538 - Psycholinguistics (3 units)
• LING 540 - Sociolinguistics (3 units)
• LING 561 - Second Language Curriculum Development (3 units)
• LING 562 - Second Language Testing and Assessment (3 units)
• LING 595 - Qualitative Research Methods (3 units)
• LING 596 - Quantitative Research Methods (3 units)
• LING 620 - Seminar in Syntactic Theory and Analysis (3 units)
• LING 625 - Seminar in Phonetics and Phonology (3 units)
• LING 650 - Seminar in Bilingualism (3 units)
• RGR 524 - Second Language Acquisition (3 units)
• RGR 570 - New Technologies in the Learning of Languages Other Than English (3 units)
• RGR 601 - Teaching Methodology (3 units)